⁶⁰ And they blessed Rebekah and said to her,

¹⁷ I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring ^(A)as the stars of heaven and ^(B)as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess ^(C)the gate of his^[a] enemies,

¹⁶ I will bless her, and moreover, I will ^(A)give^[a] you a son by her. I will bless her, and ^(B)she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”

¹¹ Then all the people who were ^(A)at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, ^(B)who together ^(C)built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in ^(D)Ephrathah and ^(E)be renowned in Bethlehem, ¹² and may your house be like the house of Perez, ^(F)whom Tamar bore to Judah, because ^(G)of the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.”

^3 (A)God Almighty^[a] bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

9 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, ^(A)“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph and said,

²⁸ And God blessed them. And God said to them, ^(A)“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”